The British Essayists: AdventurerJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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Strana 35
... greater part of which I had saved , I bespoke a suit of clothes of an eminent city tailor , with several waistcoats and breeches , and two frocks for a change I cut off my hair , and procured a brown bob perriwig of Wilding , of the ...
... greater part of which I had saved , I bespoke a suit of clothes of an eminent city tailor , with several waistcoats and breeches , and two frocks for a change I cut off my hair , and procured a brown bob perriwig of Wilding , of the ...
Strana 37
... greater confidence and freedom . I laid out near one hundred and fifty pounds in clothes , though I was obliged to go into mourning : I employed a court tailor to make them up ; I exchanged my queue for a bag ; VOL . III . E I put on a ...
... greater confidence and freedom . I laid out near one hundred and fifty pounds in clothes , though I was obliged to go into mourning : I employed a court tailor to make them up ; I exchanged my queue for a bag ; VOL . III . E I put on a ...
Strana 38
... greater excellence ; I learned several feats of mimicry of the under players , could take off known characters , tell a staring story , and humbug with so much skill as sometimes to take in a knowing one . I was so successful in the ...
... greater excellence ; I learned several feats of mimicry of the under players , could take off known characters , tell a staring story , and humbug with so much skill as sometimes to take in a knowing one . I was so successful in the ...
Strana 41
... greater strength of mind to form an assemblage of natural objects , and range them with propriety and beauty , than to bring together the greatest variety of the most splendid images without any regard to their use or congruity ; as in ...
... greater strength of mind to form an assemblage of natural objects , and range them with propriety and beauty , than to bring together the greatest variety of the most splendid images without any regard to their use or congruity ; as in ...
Strana 47
... greater . I had large warehouses crowded with goods , and considerable sums in the public funds ; I was caressed upon the Exchange by the most eminent merchants ; became the oracle of the common council ; was solicited to engage in all ...
... greater . I had large warehouses crowded with goods , and considerable sums in the public funds ; I was caressed upon the Exchange by the most eminent merchants ; became the oracle of the common council ; was solicited to engage in all ...
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acquainted ADVENTURER Almerine ancient appearance beauty Caliban Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt courage danger daughter Dean Swift Demosthenes desire Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful DRYDEN effect endeavour enjoy enjoyment equal Euripides Euryalus evil excellence expected eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fore fortune frequently gratify happiness Hawkesworth heart Hilario honour hope Hope and Fear hour idleness imagination increase insensibility JOHN HAWKESWORTH Johnson kind King Lear knew labour lady Lear less live look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery nature ness never night Nourassin object obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetually pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch Posidippus possessed present produced Prospero Quintilian racter reason SATURDAY scarce sentiments Shakspeare Shelimah sion Soliman solitude sometimes soon Story suffered Sycorax tenderness thee thou thought tion TUESDAY VIRG virtue Warton wish wretched writer Xerxes
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Strana 109 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
Strana 111 - Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ; says suum, mun ha no nonny. Dolphin my boy, my boy ; sessa ! let him trot by. [Storm still. LEAK. Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Strana 151 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
Strana 152 - No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou 'It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never ! Pray you, undo this button : thank you, sir.
Strana 107 - Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak and despised old man: But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.
Strana 93 - If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, Make it your cause ; send down, and take my part...
Strana 149 - Thou must be patient; we came crying hither. Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air, We wawl, and cry: — I will preach to thee; mark me. Glo. Alack, alack the day ! Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools; This...
Strana 112 - I'll see their trial first : — Bring in the evidence. — Thou robed man of justice, take thy place ; — [To Edgar. And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity, [To the Fool. Bench by his side : — You are of the commission, Sit you too.